anastrophe

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kelimelerin olağan tertibinin değiştirilmesi
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unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence
A type of hyperbaton involving the inversion of the natural or usual syntactical order of a pair of words for rhetorical or poetic effect, as "hillocks green" for "green hillocks" or "high triumphs hold" for "hold high triumphs" in Milton's "L'Allegro" or from the same poem, Meadows trim, with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; (Compare Antistrophe, Chiasmus, Hypallage)
transposition or inversion of normal word order; a type of hyperbaton "Once upon a midnight dreary " -- Edgar Allan Poe "The helmsman steered; the ship moved on; yet never a breeze up blew " -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge See also: hyperbaton, synchysis
the reversal of the normal order of words
{i} change in the order of words or phrases in a grammatical construction; inversion of the normal order of words
An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed
a switching in the syntactical order of words
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